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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Rooted in Messina's underground, this speed/thrash metal project delivers brutal compositions with conviction since 2001. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Hemiptera is a black metal/punk band from Brighton And Hove, England, formed in 2024. They fuse raw black metal aggression with punk's rebellious energy.
Death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach delivers unrelenting death metal from the Spanish capital's extreme music underground.
Bred in Turin's underground, this act delivers grim neoclassical/progressive metal since 2011. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Death metal/hardcore band from Denmark, active since 2016. Their surgical approach to extreme music merges death metal brutality with hardcore punk intensity.
Heavy metal/hard rock band from Celle/Hanover, Germany, formed in 2018. Their riff-driven sound blends the power of heavy metal with classic hard rock energy from Lower Saxony.
Hemlokk is a atmospheric black metal, neofolk band from West Sussex, England, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
An established melodic death metal/metalcore voice from Sremska Mitrovica, contributing to Serbia's underground since 2025. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Hemoragy is a heavy/thrash metal band from Paris, France, active since 2004 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
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European Metal Index is an index of European heavy metal bands — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, and all heavy music. Browse bands by genre, find metal concerts near you, and discover the European metal scene.